CAJAC, The Community Association for Jewish At-Risk Cemeteries, is a non-profit organization established to rescue and maintain Jewish cemeteries. CAJAC's mission is to be a central repository for fundraising, endowment management and the general care of abandoned and at-risk Jewish cemeteries.

Bayside Cemetery Restoration

Starting with seed money from the UJA Federation of New York, CAJAC has begun a massive restoration and maintenance program at Bayside Cemetery

Bayside Acacia Cemetery, Queens

The Bayside Cemetery is a cemetery in Queens, New York. It is one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in New York City. It was founded in the mid-nineteenth century, and among those buried there are many military veterans from the Civil War onward...

 in Queens

Queens

Queens is the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City. The largest borough in area and the second-largest in population, it is coextensive with Queens County, an administrative division of New York state, in the United States....

, NY. CAJAC has employed a private contractor and instituted a volunteer program to clear the entire cemetery.

External links

• Bayside Cemetery Cleanup Begins by CAJAC - The Community Association for Jewish At-risk Cemeteries
• Official Site of the Hebrew Free Burial Association
• CAJAC Facebook Page